by Tom | Oct 4, 2013 | Reading
It has taken me a while, but this nails it: Security measures combat a very different sort of risk: a risk stemming from another person. People are intelligent, and they can adapt to new security measures in ways nature cannot. An earthquake isn't able to figure...
by Tom | Oct 4, 2013 | Reading
I like the idea but don't understand the results. Search all the tweets sice 2006.
by Tom | Sep 22, 2013 | Government, Reading
Must read from Henry Porter. Just insanity. This isn’t about rights, it is about the wholesale slaughter of individuals. My emphasis. The figures from Congressional Research Service, plus recent statistics from icasualties.org, tell us that from the first...
by Tom | Sep 17, 2013 | Business, Government, Reading
Wow. There is a lot to digest in this must-read transcript of a talk given by Chomsky in Europe. I like the idea of the “really existing” version of an abstract ideal to help us focus on what is actually happening in the world rather than being distracted...
by Tom | Sep 17, 2013 | Reading, Science
We want sports to be fair and we take elaborate measures to make sure that no one competitor has an advantage over any other. But how can a fantastic menagerie ever be a contest among equals? It is a valid question, and a difficult one to answer. My hunch is that...
by Tom | Sep 11, 2013 | Reading
“Things you don’t really want to happen: being caught in the lift singing along to ‘I touch myself’ by the Divynyls, with your eyes closed, while looking a bit of a hot and sweaty mess after a lunch time jog. Oh, and you REALLY don’t want...
